The San Francisco District Attorney's Office has charged a man with attempted murder and hate-crime enhancements after he allegedly stabbed a 24-year-old transgender woman on a Muni bus, and hurled epithets at her and her friend.
On Tuesday afternoon, Brodes Wayne Joynes, 54, was charged with attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, battery with serious bodily injury, two counts of criminal threats and false imprisonment. Spokesman Alex Bastian said all charges carry hate crime enhancements.
Joynes was ordered to appear in court on Wednesday afternoon
Police Sgt. Monica MacDonald said Joynes was arrested Saturday, the day the woman was attacked.
The victim and her friend, both transgender, were sitting toward the back of a 49-Van Ness Muni bus in the South of Market neighborhood. They were heading north on Van Ness Avenue when the suspect approached them, police said.
"We were both on the bus together when a man across the way accused us both of defrauding him by pretending to be female," the victim's friend Rae Raucci wrote on Facebook after the attack. She identified the victim only as Samantha.
The pair got off the bus on Van Ness Avenue in the city's Civic Center neighborhood to get away from him, but the man followed, brandishing a knife, Raucci wrote.
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Raucci said her friend was stabbed twice in the upper chest just before 6 p.m. on Van Ness Avenue and suffered 10 stiches.
On Facebook, Raucci began posting stories of Joynes' arrest.
